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Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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Remember when people kept claiming Facebook buying Instagram wasn't a bad thing because "they're not ruining it" "They're just leaving it as the same old Instagram".

I do. And I also recall thinking they were/are naive. I still think that.

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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Remember when people kept claiming Facebook buying Instagram wasn't a bad thing because "they're not ruining it" "They're just leaving it as the same old Instagram".

Uh that's what they've done. The article is about Instagram becoming like Facebook in the sense that this is a massive property on the scale of the core Facebook product. 700 million users vs Facebook's 2 billion.

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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What exactly is the end goal of these advertising platforms, exactly?

Ads in my mind are zero sum, so I'm pretty clueless on this front.

One thing I find interesting is the simultaneous popularity of these newfound distractions and task/project management software. Are we solving problems that were intentionally created and calling that progress?

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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post #5

What exactly is the end goal of these advertising platforms, exactly? Ads in my mind are zero sum, so I'm pretty clueless on this front. One thing I find interesting is the simultaneous popularity of these newfound distractions and task/project management software. Are we solving problems that were intentionally created and calling that progress?

Ads over time extract profit margins from all other industries. For example at least 50% of all profits from mobile games are spent on acquiring users from ads.

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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There are things out there, great things, just struggling to be the next whatever. There should be a way to look past the eclipse of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.

I'm pretty sure Snapchat already was the next whatever

And there will be something else after it. Which probably already exists, and is just unknown.
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